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Originally Posted by Halx
ng, you ARE a bad person for liking Nascar.
I think the heart of the question that this thread asks has nothing to do with smoking, but rather the human mind. We consider ourselves many things and grant ourselves absolution from our actions that counter this self-image. Even if one is a smoker and takes all necessary precautions to protect others in order to fulfill their will to be a good person, I'm willing to bet there is going to be another guilty pleasure that shoots their self-image to hell. They'll write it off, though, because they're good everywhere else.
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And that goes both ways. Someone who insists another is bad for that habit, put themselves on a pedestal that could easily be chopped down because of something THEY do others think is bad.
Seeing balls of mucus on sidewalks grosses me out; it's disgusting as is hearing and seeing them being coughed there. It's inconsiderate, but I have no idea if that person is a bad person, just rude.
Seeing hanging bellies of flesh in sweatpants is disgusting. Are they bad people?
I don't grant absolution for my habits, but they are MY habits and I do my best not to infringe them on others. But the self-righteous attitudes of some comes with the thought that they have every right to infringe those attitudes on others.
Making generalized assumptions about a person's heart and mind because they smoke or weigh half a ton or snap their gum, whatever, is sanctimonious bullshit.
And if they don't want to get to know the person, not the action, I say, their loss.